InfoQ Software Architects' Newsletter

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect.

Facilitating the Spread of Knowledge and Innovation in Professional Software Development

News Articles Presentations Podcasts Guides

Development

Dare Mighty Things: What NASA's Endeavors Teach Us About the Power of Calculated RISCs

Khawaja Shams explores the essence of calculated risks, discussing why taking these risks, how to identify and mitigate potential downsides, and the characteristics of good risks.

All in development

Architecture & Design

From a Lambda-Lith to an Event Driven Architecture – Lessons Learned

Leo Hanisch discusses the challenges of the "Lambda-Lith" approach and the benefits of embracing EDAs.

AI Infrastructure

Beyond Notebook: Building Observable Machine Learning Systems

In this article, author discusses a machine learning pipeline with observability built-in for credit card fraud detection use case, with tools like MLflow, FastAPI, Streamlit, Apache Kafka, Prometheus, Grafana, and Evidently AI.

All in ai-ml-data-eng

Culture & Methods

Engineering Culture and the API Revolution: A Conversation with Sagar Batchu

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Sagar Batchu about building engineering teams in different environments, the transition from individual contributor to leadership roles, the importance of culture and autonomy in organizations, and the implications of AI agents on the future of APIs.

All in culture-methods

DevOps

Checklist for Kubernetes in Production: Best Practices for SREs

This article provides SREs with a checklist for managing Kubernetes in production environments. It identifies common challenges including resource management, workload placement, high availability, health probes, storage, monitoring, and cost optimization. By implementing consistent GitOps automation across these areas, teams can significantly reduce complexity, and prevent downtime.